I think there were things within our team tonight amongst ourselves where it was boiling points and frustration with one another. I think it's very important right now, when it gets to that level, that we've just got to stay together. There are some tough times in a long season. This is the time we need to stay together and just get through it. |
I think this is a great opportunity for John Grahame, who has been spitting bullets at me since he got here to be a No. 1. But you know what, it's not going to be me making the decisions, it's going to be them making the decision for the team, and that's the most important thing. |
I thought he showed signs of the doing some of the things we expect out of him. Again, not so much offensively. I still think there is a ton of work to be done there. |
I thought parts of the game we played very well, but other parts we were brain-dead. Even in the second period when it was 3-1 I thought we weren't playing badly, but we put ourselves in a bad spot with too many penalties. |
I thought the defense played very well. |
I thought the key was making sure when we got down 1-0 to come back and answer right away, and obviously score a couple more after that. |
I thought we played very well, but do the math. Eight scoring chances, five goals. It's frustrating. |
I thought we played well enough in Washington, but again we didn't score the big goal. That was probably, to me, one of the toughest losses I've gone through in the way we lost it. I thought we made some terrible mistakes on the (winning) goal. ... As a coach, it was a tough one to eat. |
I thought we played well enough to win. We had plenty of scoring chances, and we just didn't finish. |
I thought we played with more energy, I thought we did better things tonight. Both teams had some opportunities. They scored on a couple. We didn't. |
I thought we took some inopportune times to take some penalties, but I saw a lot of good things from our club. Now we'll get on the plane, and do it again tomorrow. |
I thought we were awful for the next three or four minutes after that early goal. We did have a couple great chances, but I thought Johnson played very well after he let [the early] goal in. But I thought that's when we were our sloppiest, after that goal. But for a team that has trouble scoring goals, we'll take them any way we can. |
I thought we were ready to play and I thought we showed we were ready to play. But for some reason after they scored their [first] goal we were like a deer in the headlights. |
I thought we were ready to play. But we looked surprised that there was another team on ice. |
I understand they have had success against us, but I think the past few games we've played them, a turn here or a turn there and it could be a different result. We're looking forward to it. We're right where we want to be. ... They're the ones that for the past couple months: 'No one is going to be able to touch them.' So we want the opportunity first. |